Glove or mitten.



E. G. HUNTER.

GLOVE 0R MITTEN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1914.

1,126,014. Patented Jan. 26, 1915.

NITNIEEES INVQTUR: KM/1% I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERVIN C. HUNTER, 0F GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.

GLOVE 0R MITTEN.

Application filed May 25, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERVIN C. HUNTER, a' citizen of the United States, and a resident of Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Glove or Mitten, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to gloves and mittens of the character disclosed in U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,090,826, granted to me March 17, 1914:, and the disclosures herein are .intended and purposed as improvements thereon, primarily, however, as regards structure rather than basic features.

In the said prior patent where shown two basic and elemental features, namely, a glove (or mitten) body, and a pocket wall which together with a portion or portions of the body constituted a pocket having its opening directed toward the thumb. In the present invention the same basic features are retained, the improvements being directed more particularly to the modes of attachment thereof to each other, whereby somewhat better results are achieved.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide improved means for preventing accidental escape of nails from the pocket.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View of a glove or mitten, of preferred construction, shown as on the left hand of the user; and Fig. 2 a modification, seen in perspective.

Coming now to a detailed description of the gloves or mittens shown in said drawings, 2 designates a yielding back, preferably of knitted fabric and having a thumbhole 3.

The palm of the glove is indicated by 5 and in Fig. 1 this is a portion of the front piece 5. This piece extends over and covers the outer edge of the hand.

10 designates a combined pocket-wall and glove or mitten end, stitched at 10 to the piece 5, its rear portion or border being in-. dicated by 10'. One edge of its fore end is turned over and united by stitches 10 to its body portion to provide a compartment for the small and ring fingers. This Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 26, 1915.

Serial No. 840,806.

line of stitching provides also the forward terminal of the pocket wherein the nails are contained, the stitches 10 forming its rear terminal. For the purposes hereof I shall herein term that portion of the piece 10 which lies within or is bounded by the stitches 10, 10, the pocket-wall, in order that the terminology may correspond to that employed in my former patent. In said patent the free edge of the pocket-Wall had no provision whereby it would prevent the nails from falling out when the hand of the user assumed certain positions. In the present drawing, at 14 I have shown said edge as inturned or reflexed to stand normally at a right angle to its body proper, whereby when the hand is turned so that the nails fall toward said edge they will come in contact with and be restrained thereby. The rear end portion of the retaining edge 14 is preferably held in position by knots 15.

Referring now particularly to Fig. 2, the back 2 is made substantially like the back shown in Fig. 1, but the rear border of the palm 5 terminates at the line of stitches 10 and the entire glove front is made in one piece, 16, very like in construction to the piece 5 of Fig. 1 except that it extends entirely to the rear end of the glove wrist, of which it constitutes a portion.

Having thus described the nature of my invention I claim as new and desire to se cure by Letters Patent the following, towit:

1. A glove including a pocket wall having a free edge portion turned at substantially a right angle to said pocket wall and secured in such position.

2. A glove including a pocket wall having a free edge portion turned at substantially a right angle to said wall and secured at its rear end to the glove palm and at its front end to one of the glove fingers.

I11 testimony whereof, I hereunto attach my signature this 20th day of May, 1914, at Galesburg, Illinois.

ERVIN C. HUNTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

